Server woes have caused this episode, originally recorded on the 5th of August, 2011 to be released just today. The Meta Cast of Kyokai, Jrow, Foshizzel and Ness were joined by Anivision‘s Gundamologist Amuro to talk some good ole mecha, from Gundam’s history to Gurren Lagann’s salute to mecha all the way to finding a mecha that best defines ourselves.

I hope you enjoyed our take on mecha and this is for all the mecha fans out there who think Metanorn hates ’em. Naaawww, we can never do that and I think I proved the point with some of us going more than overboard fangirling few series. As it has to be said, we noticed some voice degradation in the beginning of the podcast but the connection was troubling and Amuro did fix it stat. Next episode with be with AAA peeps and will be released quicker than this. Look forward to it. Till next time. Ja ne~

Thanks again to Amuro for dropping by. We had loads of fun chatting him up. You can listen to him more at Anivision.

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As expected of The Shizznit. Then no doubt you enjoyed Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It was better than the first and certainly a lot better than the second even though it had that awesome combination transformer Devastator.

Yet again, great podcast guys! Amuro is a really cool guy to listen to; very enthusiastic! I’m with him 100% on the whole Misa > Minmei thing. The latter is the type of character that would be played today by Kana Hanazawa in full-on Nessa/Shiro mode. Bleugh!

I’m not that knowledgeable on mecha, other than the weird bio-robot shows like Eva, Rahxephon (nice choice including the Maaya Sakmoto OP in the background), Gasaraki, etc, so it was great to hear a discussion on the main contenders. Maybe one day I’ll get round to watching some Gundam.

I am actually working my through the entirety Macross for the first time, so was perhaps a little disappointed there was no mention of M7, which I’m attempting to watch right now. It would have been great to hear other people trash that series; perhaps I’m one of the few committed/dumb enough to watch the whole show. Oh well, guess I’ll go back on twitter and argue with Ghostlighting about how bad it is, haha.

Most memorable quote = “LISTEN TO MY SONG!!!!”

PS. Anyone play Xenogears? That was a great mecha game, like Evangelion only more complicated and heavier, story wise (yeah, you heard that right!).

There’s some good mecha out there. I mean yeah, robots are the ones hogging all the focus and such, but there’s some good story driven ones. We didn’t even mention Full Metal Panic which has a good story, interesting comedy and the Arbalest mecha which is kind of neat.